screeching harpy

Wow! you did such a great job with limited space. Yum yum 🍔

32 x 32 pixel art of a hamburger with lettuce and cheese on a seeded bun on a pale yellow background. There are white sparkles around the top of the burger with a light red checker border on the top and bottom.

32px Hamburger 🍔 #pixelart #weeklypixels #artsky

I feel like members of the liberal leaning general public are expected to adhere to an impossible level of decency while our leaders act with impunity. It's even more insulting to have to behave as though they are the best among us despite what we see them doing.

Gouache fanart of the game Consume Me. Jenny is in the middle looking overwhelmed and surrounded by her love interest, her mom, obligations (represented by a planner) and snacks like kale, tomatoes, cheese, and chocolate. A scale with a sad face on a pink tile background looms in the background. Consume Me is written below in red, playful text with her fluffy white dog sitting to the right.

CONSUME ME 🍫 More gouache practice of games I like~ #art #gouache #watercolor

Focaccia yummmm 💕

any Dem not running on a platform of "every one of these fuckers from top to bottom is going to prison at best" is not worth your time or notice

Pumpernickel Bagels A chewy, rye-flavored bagel.

Chewy on the outside and softer on the inside! Lots of little bubbles. I used this recipe if you want to give it a go. Still worked really well without the rye improver and diastetic malt powder.
www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/pump...

Angled shot of eight freshly baked pumpernickel bagels cooling on a wire rick sitting in a blue baking sheet.

Top down shot of eight freshly baked pumpernickel bagels cooling on a wire rick sitting in a blue baking sheet.

Stress baked some pumpernickel bagels 🥯 🍽️ #breadsky

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

US withdraws from the World Health Organization The United States officially left the World Health Organization on Thursday after a year of warnings that doing so would hurt public health in the U.S. and globally, saying its decision reflected fail...

The US has officially left the World Health Organization.

The damage that has been done in the past year to our health institutions will take years to rebuild, if we get the opportunity to do so.

www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Even after Trump is gone, the world will remember that he threatened to forcibly seize the territory of a peaceful democratic ally, and our institutions failed to immediately remove him. That makes US dangerously unreliable, not just one senile gangster.

I continue to believe that one of the things that fuels this “no protests” myth is that the US is a massive and sparsely populated nation that can’t continuously and consistently converge on one central city the way, say, the French can.

A good question to ask if you think “but why would government officials lie about Covid??” is can you think of any other topics on which they have lied or delayed necessary action? Like AIDS, perhaps. Or climate change. Or weapons of mass destruction. Or the Bay of Tonkin. Or the president’s health.

Too much of my life right now is at the whim of capricious, vindictive, selfish, shitty people in the twilight years of their lives who seem determined to make themselves the main characters to the bitter end. Anyway, maybe tomorrow.

Hypernormalization describes a state where a false, simplified, or surreal version of reality becomes so accepted as normal that people lose the ability or will to challenge it, even when aware of its untruth, often due to systemic inertia or lack of alternatives. Coined by Alexei Yurchak for late Soviet society, it was popularized by Adam Curtis's documentary, applying it to modern Western cultures where complex problems are met with fabricated, anesthetic narratives by those in power, leading to collective cognitive dissonance where everyone pretends a dysfunctional system is working.

“Hypernormalization describes a state where a false, simplified, or surreal version of reality becomes so accepted as normal that people lose the ability or will to challenge it, even when aware of its untruth, often due to systemic inertia or lack of alternatives.”

I don’t understand how folks distrust their governments about everything but covid.

Simple blender rendering of a tree with pink flowers on a square of green grass with a small blue lake.

PS1 style blender rendering of a tree with pink flowers on a square of green grass with a small blue lake.

Pixel filtered blender rendering of a tree with pink flowers on a square of green grass with a small blue lake.

Blender shading and filter experimentation. Followed a Lana Easteregg tutorial for the first scene, then tried some pixel filters for the second one. For the last one I had to download an older Blender and replace the materials with color ramps. Why is it hard to get sharper pixels in 5.0 😵‍💫

hey, quick question: what’s it gonna take

Thank you so much!

16-bit pixel art of three original characters from Obojima Tales from the Tall Grass. On the left is a human girl with brown pigtails, a pink hair kerchief with a green shirt, pants and apron. In the middle is an elf woman with a long brown coat, blue cravat and vest and blue pants. On the right is a male nakudama (frog person) with a green-grey bomber jacket with a wool color, and a dark shirt and pants.

Dabbling in some pixel art this year. These are 16-bit versions of me and some friends OCs from our Obojima campaign. #art #pixelart

The market correction for AI can't come soon enough.

A hundred thousand people on average still die annually and thousands more become disabled or have a lowered quality of life from Covid-19 complications. Easier said than done but the only way to prevent this is to avoid infections.

Even if AI was good at what it does, people have finite time and resources to spend on games. Also one of the first rules of finance is there's no guaranteed returns. Businesses' insistence that they must have X% growth year over year at the expense of everything else is poisonous.

Matt Walsh tweeted last year: "We've spent the last 25 years bringing "freedom" and "democracy" to countries around the globe while our own country has been systematically invaded and now our largest cities are run by foreigners and communists. If you want to know why I'm so avowedly non-interventionist, this is why." Then he tweeted today: ""This is a war for oil!!!!!" First of all, the "war" lasted like 90 minutes. Second, going to war to secure vital resources for your own people is totally legitimate. Why should we allow some third world communist shithole to control trillions of dollars worth of oil?"

Laura Loomer tweeted last year: "I’m America First, I don’t support “Regime Change”. I went on @Bannons_WarRoom to talk about Chinese aggression in Venezuela and why we need to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign Islamic terrorist organization." Then she tweeted yesterday: "Maduro has arrived at the DEA office in Manhattan. He was transported in an armored motorcade after being transported in a blindfold via helicopter & then by plane to New York after his compound in Caracas was raided by US Special Forces. Proud to be an American today! USA 🇺🇸"

Catturd tweeted last year: "Name one U.S. inspired regime change that hasn’t ended in absolute disaster." Then he tweeted yesterday: "Venezuela is now more free than New York City."

Will Chamberlain tweeted last year: "The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position" Then he tweeted yesterday: "I can think of few better uses of my tax dollars than black-bagging the head of a foreign narco-trafficking organization that enriches itself by addicting and poisoning my fellow Americans"

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

More 'Muricans on Taskmaster yessssss 💕

I hope 2026 is kind to us all

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Thank you! That's very kind of you say!

Gouache painting of Quina Quen from Final Fantasy 9 standing in a marsh about to attack a frog with her fork while the frog hops out of frame.

✨ I DO WHAT I WANT! YOU HAVE PROBLEM? ✨
closing out this year's gouache practice with Quina! Looking forward to more next year 🎨

in Chapter 4 of FF Tactics right now ✨